STILL WAITING

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In 1865, after the Confederate States of America were defeated in the American Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman issued Special Field Orders, No. 15 to solve problems caused by the masses of refugees, a temporary plan granting each freed family forty acres of tillable land in the sea islands and around Charleston, South Carolina for the exclusive use of black people who had been enslaved. round 40,000 freed slaves were settled on 400,000 acres (1,600 km²) in Georgia and South Carolina. However, President Andrew Johnson reversed the order after Lincoln was assassinated and the land was returned to its previous owners. In 1867,Thaddeus Stevens sponsored a bill for the redistribution of land to African Americans, but it was not passed
During the 90s, reparations came back into public yet no one could agree on how blacks should be repaid. Some where happy with just a public apology from the government (didn't happen)